To Rome with Love (2012)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 163
Fresh: 70 | Rotten: 93
To Rome With Love sees Woody Allen cobbling together an Italian postcard of farce, fantasy, and comedy with only middling success.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 20
To Rome With Love sees Woody Allen cobbling together an Italian postcard of farce, fantasy, and comedy with only middling success.
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To Rome with Love is a kaleidoscopic comedy movie set in one of the world's most enchanting cities. The film brings us into contact with a well-known American architect reliving his youth; an average middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome's biggest celebrity; a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters; and an American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage. -- (C) Sony Pictures Classics
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Cast
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Woody Allen
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Alec Baldwin
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Roberto Benigni
Leopoldo Pisanello -
Penelope Cruz
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Judy Davis
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Jesse Eisenberg
Jack -
Greta Gerwig
Sally -
Ellen Page
Monica -
Fabio Armiliata
Giancarlo -
Alessandra Mastronardi
Milly -
Ornella Muti
Pia Fusari -
Flavio Parenti
Michelangelo -
Alison Pill
Hayley -
Riccardo Scamarcio
Hotel Robber, Rapinator... -
Alessandro Tiberi
Antonio -
Antonio Albanese
Luca Salta -
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Allen's creative revival comes to a juddering halt with a foursome of would-be amusing vignettes that barely muster a laugh between them.
Top CriticOnce upon a time, calling a movie "lesser Woody Allen" might be considered a slap in the face. Now, it's more-or-less expected.
Allen's story moves along quite wonderfully, primarily because of his nuanced casting.
Most of the characters are archetypes, yet Allen treats them with genuine affection and avoids the bitterness that's marred much of his recent work.
It's minor Woody, but it's still Woody.
Not great, but not grating.
Inconsistencies in time and space elements, and a plot that echoes an episode of The Flintstones, join generally underdeveloped attempts at suspending disbelief to mar Allen's attempt to represent the city of Fellini.
Compared to "Midnight in Paris," this homage isn't nearly as sure-footed.
There are some things to like about "To Rome with Love," but when you weigh all four stories together, you'll more than likely find that it's not worth sitting through due to the weaker ones.
The jokes are hit and miss, but overall the movie is a marginally enjoyable romp.
I liked it - but I can see why some won't.
There are four "stories", linked by the fact that they all take place in Rome. None of them are funny, interesting or in the slightest way connected to how real people exist.
These roughly connected comic sketches don't really add up to a whole movie, but there are enough laughs here and there to keep the film afloat.
Allen's Roman sojourn results in little more than a series of fanciful vignettes, occasionally insightful and not without the odd chuckle, but mostly just rather silly and inconsequential.
After the surprise triumph of Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen returns with another charmer set in a foreign city... At 76, he's clearly at the top of his game.
The laughs feel familiar, the characters feel like caricatures and Woody Allen seems to be on autopilot.
Woody Allen's sudsy ode to Rome, while joyful and amusing, rings hollow.
The vacuous dialogue in Allen's screenplay is exceptionally clunky. What he envisages as cheeky comes off as creaky.
He can't get away with what he got away with 50 years ago and that's the thing. His timing is off. He's not funny. He used to be achingly funny and beautiful.
It's not a bad film, but TO ROME WITH LOVE is very minor Woody Allen.
A good-looking, familiar Woody romp.
It's a movie of moments - some great, some good, some flat out bad - just as his Allen's career has been made up of moments too.
A largely forgettable letdown that could have, should have been a contender.
To Rome With Love invites comparisons with Midnight in Paris - to the former's detriment. Opening and closing with Volare, one of the corniest in the Italian pop song repertoire, Allen wears the corny badge with pride throughout
There a frenzy of activity with abundant characters, fast one liners, amusing moments and clever ideas in Woody Allen's love letter to Rome, although after the finesse of Midnight in Paris, it seems rather trivial
To Rome With Love is a triumphant examination of life and love's many splendors, spilt out on the streets on Rome at their wickedly absurd and poignantly profound moments...
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Set in Rome, we get four unrelated vignettes that all involve love and relationships in some sort of way, all of them generally kind of funny, and falling under the umbrella of rom-com/magical realism.
The movie isn't really a good one per se, but it's not terrible either. I think it mostly fails to be great because Woody is old, doesn't really care much anymore, and just keeps on making movies just because. In a way, I'm okay with this, because even the worst Woody Allen is still sort of enjoyable in its own way.
All of these four stories are hit and miss, but each one did make me laugh at least once, though never in a gut busting sort of way. Even when things fell flat, I wasn't really bored, so that shows you right there that the film isn't a complete loss.
It's good seeing Woody act again, but his shtick is quite tired here, and I wouldn't have cared had he just stayed behind the camera. It's at least nice seeing Roberto Benigni and Judy Davis again, though. Jesse Eisenberg makes for a great surrogate Woody, and I liked Ellen Page as well. Seeing Penelope Cruz play a prostitute posing as a newly married man's wife was probably the highlight though.
All in all, this is lesser Allen, but it still has its merits. I don't fully recommend it, but can't think of enough reasons not to possibly check it out either.
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- Jerry: Don't try and psychoanalyze me. Many have tried, all have failed. My brain doesn?t fit the usual ego, superego model.
- Phyllis: No, you have the only brain with three ids.
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- Rapinatore hotel: Life is sometimes very cruel. It does not give satisfaction nor to those who are rich and famous, or to those who are poor and unknown. But to be rich and famous, between the two, is definitely better.
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- John: Oh God! Here comes the bullshit!
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- Jerry: I have an IQ of 140, 160.
- Phyllis: Your thinking in euros, in dollars is much less.
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- Monica: There's something attractive about a man who's sensitive to the agonies of existence.
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- Giancarlo: Is someone dead?
- Jerry: No, but it's early...
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